My laptop has 12G ram, but I notice I hardly ever go above 6G. Do you think you need that much? 4T disk is..eye rolling for me. On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 13:31, Steve Petrie via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
*Hello GTALUG,*
Thanks to GTALUG members: *William Park*, *D. Hugh Redelmeier*, *Ron / BCLUG* and *Howard Gibson* for your responses to my message subject "Seeking Recommendations For New Desktop PC -- To Run Debian Linux;". My apologies if I missed any names.
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I have settled on a *Dell Optiplex Tower Model 7020 Plus and a Dell Monitor*:
*Dell Tower:* -- 32 GB RAM -- 4 TB SATA Hard Drive -- No Windows 11
*Dell Monitor:* -- 21.4 inch -- HDMI
*Prices before taxes:*
Dell Optiplex Tower: CAD $2,021.89 Dell Monitor: CAD $119.99 ========= CAD $2141.88
No doubt GTALUG members will be *choking on their Cheerios*, at the pricing.
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The Asrock motherboard on my present self-built (7 years ago) tower *is dying*. And I am *never going to build another PC*. So, I have decided to *pillage my bank account*, buying a new PC with *twice the RAM* and *twice the disk capacity* on my dying tower.
Only downside is *Dell's predicted delivery date* for the tower: *Tuesday, March 18, 2025*. But could be sooner.
So, I just have to hope that my current dying tower survives for another month. The motherboard problems show up at boot time. I'm keeping he Debian 11 running 24/7 and only powering down if / when Debian crashes. Which it occasionally does for some mysterious reason.
I already have a USB flash drive with Debian 12 live ready to boot on the Dell.
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I will report my experience with the Dell tower in due course.
*Steve Petrie*
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